Foam Magazine #19 / Wonder Theme Introduction

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Foam Magazine #19 / Wonder Theme Introduction foam magazine #19 / wonder theme introduction 027 foam magazine #19 / wonder theme introduction 028 foam magazine #19 / wonder theme introduction ~ With the Ability to Marvel ~ by Marcel Feil ~ curator Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Imagine that the Martians succeeded, after all, in reaching Planet Earth it doesn’t. Perhaps the ability to feel wonder and surprise is an intrin- and managed a safe landing. Without us earthlings noticing, they have sic human quality. It makes us ask questions and is therefore the origin lived among us for some time and have been able to examine our plan- of knowledge and development. This, however, may be where the snake et at their leisure. It is interesting to attempt to see our own environ- bites its own tail. For the more we know about the way the world is put ment through their eyes. What do they see? What strikes them? And together, the greater the danger that this will colour our way of looking what will fascinate them enough to take back with them as typical of at things and that prior knowledge will obstruct our ability to feel genu- our planet? ine wonder. In fact, however, our amazement may actually increase as our knowledge grows, and every answer may open up unknown worlds What these questions are really about, of course, is an attempt to see the and raise new questions. This would make scientists the people with the world we assume to be familiar without any prior knowledge, without any strongest sense of amazement about our wondrous and inexplicable prejudice or hypotheses. It is an attempt to see and experience things as world. they really are, as they exist outside of us. It’s a renewed acquaintance without artificial connotations, and therefore as objective as possible. Knowledge comes with the years. The occasional genuinely amazed sci- Of course that is extremely difficult, if not impossible. How can we es- entist aside, the fact is that as time passes we feel less and less won- cape from our own selves and experience the true nature of things? And der and amazement. We just don’t have the time. There’s too much to what is that, anyway, the true nature of something? It’s a question which do. In our daily lives we are mainly occupied with practicalities: getting philosophers and scientists have been asking themselves for centuries, dressed, eating, going to work, working, returning home. All our time is and which they have not been able to answer satisfactorily. The prob- taken up with day-to-day worries, with all the things we still have to and lem is greatest when man and his actions are themselves the subject want to do. Wonder is something for daydreamers, and our society is too of observation, examination and analysis. That is where we encounter focused on usefulness and efficiency to give them much sympathy or most obstacles. But in fact the same goes for every form of observation space. Our activities are result-oriented and it is on their results they are and for all phenomena. It has never really proved possible to separate judged and valued. This attitude defines our perception, the way we see the things around us from ourselves. Our links with the world, and vice and experience things. Our brain filters out everything we don’t need, at a versa, are so strong that it is not particularly odd to conclude that they given moment. And that is just as well. We cannot afford to walk around are inextricably connected and that the world exists only because of us in a constant state of utter amazement. We would be caught in an autis- and within us. tic ecstasy. To function well in society, too much amazement is no help at Does this mean that we cannot be amazed about what happens all. I use e-mail and the internet dozens of times every day. I know how on our planet? Yes, that indeed is what it means. But it doesn’t mean it works. By which I mean I know how to use it. I have come to take it for that we cannot be amazed by the things we see around us. Thank God granted that it works if I hit a few keys. That no longer surprises me. But 029 foam magazine #19 / wonder theme introduction 030 foam magazine #19 / wonder theme introduction 031 foam magazine #19 / wonder theme introduction 032 foam magazine #19 / wonder One of the few fields where wonder has found a natural place is art. Art theme introduction exists by virtue of a fresh way of looking at our world and the ability to be amazed by it. This gives form and meaning to the sense of wonder. It’s the opposite of the practical and profit-oriented thinking that so impov- ~ erishes our society. In itself, art has no practical use. Rarely has a tree been so beautifully portrayed as by the Hungar- A sense of wonder cannot ian writer and photographer Peter Nadas. He has a wild pear tree in his garden, which he photographed for a year at different times of the day really be learned. and in different seasons, in ever changing light. The photographs are a silent, modest testament to the passage of time, barely perceptible but It’s something that comes unstoppable and merciless. They are accompanied by My Own Death, a short story in which a man sees his life pass before his eyes while ly- over you, suddenly and when ing on the floor after a heart attack. After three and a half minutes, he comes round again. It’s an occurrence that is as horrifying as it is com- you least expect it. monplace. The two stories, presented in two different forms with differ- ent speeds, speak of time, mortality, acceptance and resistance, and of ~ the thin line between life and death. Life and death, rise and fall are as incomprehensible as they are self-evident – for both the man and the tree. The difference is that the man knows it and suffers because of it. of course I don’t really know in any detail how it works or how it has been He can look back and see himself, albeit only briefly. constructed. There’s no need for me to know. It’s an invention I’m eager to Perhaps life itself is, ultimately, the greatest wonder. No one knows use to my advantage without having a clue about the technology. That’s why we are born, why we are who we are, how much time we have in this nothing compared to the next generation, the teenagers in the street or life or what the idea of death really is. I often think of the last words of a in the playground. They are growing up in a world of gaming, broadband, good friend’s grandfather. He had devoted his whole life to the essence satellites, interactive TV, texting and messaging. Nothing amazes them of man and to the way it relates to the rest of the universe. ‘Well, I won- any more. The inherent danger is that they’ll believe anything. Everything der…’, he said – and then he died. Intrigued till the end, he surrendered is possible – why shouldn’t it be? to the inevitable. But how do you develop the ability to be amazed? Knowledge can be While Nadas has created a very moving series about aging, the passing acquired, and so can behaviour and perhaps even taste. But wonder? It of time and mortality, in her beautiful book Aila, the Japanese photog- seems that it is an ability that only decreases as the years go by, crushed rapher Rinko Kawauchi shows her bond with the world in quite a dif- by the pressure of an achievement-oriented technology-based society. ferent way. Kawauchi’s work is atmospheric and indirect. She shows a The danger that we take everything for granted, that we just accept ev- world caught in a divine light, before good and evil, a paradisiacal envi- erything we come across and lose our awareness of the wondrous, the ronment where all things have their natural place, however strange they bizarre, the unusual and the different is lurking just around the corner. may appear to us. It is an enchanted, vulnerable and fragile world. For I recently watched one of my daughters closely study a strawber- Kawauchi it is of great importance that the people who see her work do ry. An ordinary strawberry. She took her time to do so, because a three- so in an atmosphere of peace and security, as if, through her work, she year-old doesn’t yet have any real idea of time. She stared at it intensely. wants to create an intimate and safe place to counterbalance the hurry After a while she said: ‘Look daddy, lots of little hairs!’ She held up the and agitation of everyday life. In an interview with Masakazu Takei she strawberry, with an expression in which wonder and acceptance were once said: ‘I want to create a quiet, intimate place where people can be in perfect harmony. She was right: every segment of the strawberry had alone and listen to their inner voices while they are looking at my work.’ its own yellowy-green little hair. It’s something we could observe on any In her view, the photographs serve as instruments for reflection and strawberry, but when do we take the time to study a strawberry in this meditation. They require a staring, unthinking way of looking, provoking way? Her discovery was the result of the untainted observation of a child an awareness of the miracle of life and of our living planet at every lev- who looks before she thinks.
Recommended publications
  • Project #3: Inspired By… - Description Critique Date - 3/29/19 (Fri)
    Project #3: Inspired by… - Description Critique Date - 3/29/19 (Fri) "The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash." – Sherrie Levine Conceptual Requirements: In this project, you will do your best to interpret the style of a particular photographer who interests you. You will research them as well as their work in order to make photographs that have a signature aesthetic or approach that is specific to them, and also contribute your ideas. Technical Requirements: 1. Start with the list on the back of this page (the Project Description sheet), and start web searches for these photographers. All the ones listed are masters in their own right and a good starting point for you to begin your search. Select one and confirm your choice with me by the due date (see the syllabus). 2. After choosing a photographer, go on the web and to the library to check out books on them, read interviews, and look at every image you can that is made by them. Learn as much as you can and take notes on your sources. 3. Type your name, date, and “Project 3: Inspired by...” at the top of a Letter sized page. Then write a 2 page research paper on your chosen photographer. Be sure to include information such as where and when they were born, where it is that they did their work, what kind of camera and film formats they used, their own personal history, etc.
    [Show full text]
  • Books Keeping for Auction
    Books Keeping for Auction - Sorted by Artist Box # Item within Box Title Artist/Author Quantity Location Notes 1478 D The Nude Ideal and Reality Photography 1 3410-F wrapped 1012 P ? ? 1 3410-E Postcard sized item with photo on both sides 1282 K ? Asian - Pictures of Bruce Lee ? 1 3410-A unsealed 1198 H Iran a Winter Journey ? 3 3410-C3 2 sealed and 1 wrapped Sealed collection of photographs in a sealed - unable to 1197 B MORE ? 2 3410-C3 determine artist or content 1197 C Untitled (Cover has dirty snowman) ? 38 3410-C3 no title or artist present - unsealed 1220 B Orchard Volume One / Crime Victims Chronicle ??? 1 3410-L wrapped and signed 1510 E Paris ??? 1 3410-F Boxed and wrapped - Asian language 1210 E Sputnick ??? 2 3410-B3 One Russian and One Asian - both are wrapped 1213 M Sputnick ??? 1 3410-L wrapped 1213 P The Banquet ??? 2 3410-L wrapped - in Asian language 1194 E ??? - Asian ??? - Asian 1 3410-C4 boxed wrapped and signed 1180 H Landscapes #1 Autumn 1997 298 Scapes Inc 1 3410-D3 wrapped 1271 I 29,000 Brains A J Wright 1 3410-A format is folded paper with staples - signed - wrapped 1175 A Some Photos Aaron Ruell 14 3410-D1 wrapped with blue dot 1350 A Some Photos Aaron Ruell 5 3410-A wrapped and signed 1386 A Ten Years Too Late Aaron Ruell 13 3410-L Ziploc 2 soft cover - one sealed and one wrapped, rest are 1210 B A Village Destroyed - May 14 1999 Abrahams Peress Stover 8 3410-B3 hardcovered and sealed 1055 N A Village Destroyed May 14, 1999 Abrahams Peress Stover 1 3410-G Sealed 1149 C So Blue So Blue - Edges of the Mediterranean
    [Show full text]
  • Notable Photographers Updated 3/12/19
    Arthur Fields Photography I Notable Photographers updated 3/12/19 Walker Evans Alec Soth Pieter Hugo Paul Graham Jason Lazarus John Divola Romuald Hazoume Julia Margaret Cameron Bas Jan Ader Diane Arbus Manuel Alvarez Bravo Miroslav Tichy Richard Prince Ansel Adams John Gossage Roger Ballen Lee Friedlander Naoya Hatakeyama Alejandra Laviada Roy deCarava William Greiner Torbjorn Rodland Sally Mann Bertrand Fleuret Roe Etheridge Mitch Epstein Tim Barber David Meisel JH Engstrom Kevin Bewersdorf Cindy Sherman Eikoh Hosoe Les Krims August Sander Richard Billingham Jan Banning Eve Arnold Zoe Strauss Berenice Abbot Eugene Atget James Welling Henri Cartier-Bresson Wolfgang Tillmans Bill Sullivan Weegee Carrie Mae Weems Geoff Winningham Man Ray Daido Moriyama Andre Kertesz Robert Mapplethorpe Dawoud Bey Dorothea Lange uergen Teller Jason Fulford Lorna Simpson Jorg Sasse Hee Jin Kang Doug Dubois Frank Stewart Anna Krachey Collier Schorr Jill Freedman William Christenberry David La Spina Eli Reed Robert Frank Yto Barrada Thomas Roma Thomas Struth Karl Blossfeldt Michael Schmelling Lee Miller Roger Fenton Brent Phelps Ralph Gibson Garry Winnogrand Jerry Uelsmann Luigi Ghirri Todd Hido Robert Doisneau Martin Parr Stephen Shore Jacques Henri Lartigue Simon Norfolk Lewis Baltz Edward Steichen Steven Meisel Candida Hofer Alexander Rodchenko Viviane Sassen Danny Lyon William Klein Dash Snow Stephen Gill Nathan Lyons Afred Stieglitz Brassaï Awol Erizku Robert Adams Taryn Simon Boris Mikhailov Lewis Baltz Susan Meiselas Harry Callahan Katy Grannan Demetrius
    [Show full text]
  • Arts 670 the Photographic Book
    SPRING 2019 ARTS 670 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOK Marion Belanger TEXTS: Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History Volume I, Phaidon Press, 2004 (If you can buy only one book for this course, make it this volume.) Parr and Badger, The Photobook, A History, Volume II, Phaidon Press, 2006 Nicholas Dawidoff, New York Times Magazine. “The Man Who Saw America,” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/magazine/robert-franks-america.html For explanation of printing techniques: Richard Benson, The Printed Picture, The Museum of Modern Art, 2008 This class is both an introductory survey of the photographic book and a hands on studio course where students will make simple book sequences. Along with the readings, the photographic book will be studied while visiting collections in the Wesleyan Library, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Reading Assignments: The books mentioned above can be purchased, but they will also be on reserve in the library. Note that the weekly readings include a broader range of books than presented in class. A packet of additional readings will be available. Week 1 Introduction Bring in a favorite photo book from home or a photo sequence you’ve made in the past. Library Visit Assignment: Make photographs in your home/yard. Bring in a 10 5x7 images from the series to sequence in class. Reading: Richard Benson, The Printed Picture: Part 5: “Early Photography in Silver” and Part 6: “Non-Silver Processes.” Parr and Badger. The Photobook, A History, volume I. Introduction and Chapter 1, “Topography and Travel: The First Photobooks.” Week 2 Photographic albums at the dawn of the photographic era Anna Atkins.
    [Show full text]
  • Mindful Photographer
    Operating Manual for the Mindful Photographer Ed Heckerman Copyright © 2017 Cerritos College and Ed Heckerman 11110 Alondra Blvd., Norwalk, CA 90650 Second Edition, 2018 This interactive PDF was made in partial fulfillment for a sabbatical during the academic year 2016 - 2017. No part of the text of this book may be reporduced without permission from Cerritos College. All photographs were taken by Ed Heckerman and produced independently from sabbat- ical contract. Ed Heckerman maintains the copyright for all the photographs and edition changes. No images may be copied from this manual for any use without his consent. Contents Part 1 — Insights and Aspirations 1 contents page Introduction 1 What is Photography? 2 What is a Photograph? Motivations — Why Make Photographs? Photography and Mindfulness 6 Thoughts On Tradition ��������������������������������������������������������������������������12 Part 2 — Navigating Choices ������������������������������������������������������������� 14 Cameras Loading Your Camera Unloading Your Camera Manual Focus Autofocus Sensitivity and Resolution — ISO Controlling Exposure — Setting the Aperture and Shutter Speed Shutter Speed Coordinating Apertures and Shutter Speeds Exposure Metering Systems ��������������������������������������������������������������� 25 Full-frame Average Metering Center Weighted Metering Spot Metering Multi-Zone Metering Incident Metering
    [Show full text]
  • TPG Exhibition List
    Exhibition History 1971 - present The following list is a record of exhibitions held at The Photographers' Gallery, London since its opening in January 1971. Exhibitions and a selection of other activities and events organised by the Print Sales, the Education Department and the Digital Programme (including the Media Wall) are listed. Please note: The archive collection is continually being catalogued and new material is discovered. This list will be updated intermittently to reflect this. It is for this reason that some exhibitions have more detail than others. Exhibitions listed as archival may contain uncredited worKs and artists. With this in mind, please be aware of the following when using the list for research purposes: – Foyer exhibitions were usually mounted last minute, and therefore there are no complete records of these brief exhibitions, where records exist they have been included in this list – The Bookstall Gallery was a small space in the bookshop, it went on to become the Print Room, and is also listed as Print Room Sales – VideoSpin was a brief series of worKs by video artists exhibited in the bookshop beginning in December 1999 – Gaps in exhibitions coincide with building and development worKs – Where beginning and end dates are the same, the exact dates have yet to be confirmed as the information is not currently available For complete accuracy, information should be verified against primary source documents in the Archive at the Photographers' Gallery. For more information, please contact the Archive at [email protected]
    [Show full text]
  • Feeling Around for Matter: Mikiko Hara's Quiet Observations
    Feeling Around for Matter: Mikiko Hara’s Quiet Observations https://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tap/7977573.0010.107/--feeling-around-for-... Jane Simon Volume 10, Issue 1: Writing Photo Histories, Fall 2019 Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0010.107 [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0010.107] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/] Mikiko Hara [1] [#N1] has steadily been gaining recognition for her work both in Japan and internationally since the publication of her first photobook, Hysteric Thirteen, in 2005. She received the prestigious 42nd Kimura Ihei Award, in 2017, for the 2016 photobook Change, she has had numerous solo exhibitions in Japan, and her work has been attracting the attention of curators outside of Japan. Hara’s eclectic photographs and her mode of practicing photography provide an opportunity to think about the relationship among photographer, camera, subject, and viewer as one of entanglement. Her photographs are not easy to categorize, which is part of what makes her work so compelling. Equally, though, this makes her work difficult to read according to received categories and understandings of photography. This article examines Hara’s work across two of her photobooks: Hysteric Thirteen (2005) and These Are Days (2014). I argue that Hara’s feeling around for matter — her photographic philosophy of “scooping up” what is around her — decenters the gaze and instead emphasizes a different hierarchy of the senses in the experience of taking and consuming photographs. The tactile format of the photobook meshes with Hara’s use of analogue photography, [2] [#N2] which has its own tactile materiality, and her emphasis on the camera as an apparatus that can grasp at things beyond our attention.
    [Show full text]
  • 7.10 Nov 2019 Grand Palais
    PRESS KIT COURTESY OF THE ARTIST, YANCEY RICHARDSON, NEW YORK, AND STEVENSON CAPE TOWN/JOHANNESBURG CAPE AND STEVENSON NEW YORK, RICHARDSON, YANCEY OF THE ARTIST, COURTESY © ZANELE MUHOLI. © ZANELE 7.10 NOV 2019 GRAND PALAIS Official Partners With the patronage of the Ministry of Culture Under the High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel MACRON President of the French Republic [email protected] - London: Katie Campbell +44 (0) 7392 871272 - Paris: Pierre-Édouard MOUTIN +33 (0)6 26 25 51 57 Marina DAVID +33 (0)6 86 72 24 21 Andréa AZÉMA +33 (0)7 76 80 75 03 Reed Expositions France 52-54 quai de Dion-Bouton 92806 Puteaux cedex [email protected] / www.parisphoto.com - Tel. +33 (0)1 47 56 64 69 www.parisphoto.com Press information of images available to the press are regularly updated at press.parisphoto.com Press kit – Paris Photo 2019 – 31.10.2019 INTRODUCTION - FAIR DIRECTORS FLORENCE BOURGEOIS, DIRECTOR CHRISTOPH WIESNER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - OFFICIAL FAIR IMAGE EXHIBITORS - GALERIES (SECTORS PRINCIPAL/PRISMES/CURIOSA/FILM) - PUBLISHERS/ART BOOK DEALERS (BOOK SECTOR) - KEY FIGURES EXHIBITOR PROJECTS - PRINCIPAL SECTOR - SOLO & DUO SHOWS - GROUP SHOWS - PRISMES SECTOR - CURIOSA SECTOR - FILM SECTEUR - BOOK SECTOR : BOOK SIGNING PROGRAM PUBLIC PROGRAMMING – EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS FONDATION A STICHTING – BRUSSELS – PRIVATE COLLECTION EXHIBITION PARIS PHOTO – APERTURE FOUNDATION PHOTOBOOKS AWARDS CARTE BLANCHE STUDENTS 2019 – A PLATFORM FOR EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHY IN EUROPE ROBERT FRANK TRIBUTE JPMORGAN CHASE ART COLLECTION - COLLECTIVE IDENTITY
    [Show full text]
  • The Second Shift
    The Second Shift Making Visible the Unseen Work of Home Clare Gallagher BA (Hons), PGCE, MFA, FHEA Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Ulster University Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy February 2020 I confirm that the word count of this thesis is less than 100,000 words CONTENTS The Second Shift ................................................................................................................... 1 Making Visible the Unseen Work of Home ...................................................................... 1 CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................. 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................................................... 3 ABSTRACT .............................................................................................................................. 4 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY ..................................................... 9 CHAPTER 2: HOME ............................................................................................................. 39 CHAPTER 3: THE EVERYDAY AND PHOTOGRAPHY ................................................... 59 CHAPTER 4: TACTICS, AESTHETICS AND POLITICS ................................................. 83 ATTENTION & AESTHETICS ............................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • La Visió Del Col·Leccionista. Els Millors Fotollibres Segons Martin Parr
    1 - La visió del col·leccionista. Els millors fotollibres segons Martin Parr Owen Simmons (fotògraf desconegut) The Book of Bread Maclaren and Sons, Londres, 1903 Vladimir Maiakovski i Aleksandr Ródtxenko Pro eto. Ei i mne Gos. Izd-vo (publicacions de l’Estat), Moscou, 1923 Albert Renger-Patzsch Die Welt ist Schön Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munic, 1928 Germaine Krull Métal Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, París, 1928 August Sander Antlitz der Zeit: 60 Fotos Deutscher Menschen Transmare Verlag i Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munic, 1929 Bill Brandt The English at Home B. T. Batsford Ltd., Londres, 1936 Comissariat de propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya Madrid Indústries Gràfiques Seix i Barral, Barcelona, 1937 Robert Capa Death in the Making Covici Friede Inc., Nova York, 1938 Heinrich Hoffmann (ed.) Winterhilfswerk-Heftchen Bild-Dokumente Heinrich Hoffmann, Munic, de 1938 a c. 1942 KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern Oficina d’informació de guerra nord-americana), 1945 imoni col·locat ho gaudeix] Éditions du Seuil, Album Petite Planete, París, 1956 The Great Hall of the People Editorial de belles arts del poble, Pequín, 1959 Dirk Alvermann Algerien / L’Algérie Rütten & Loening, Berlín, 1960 Dirk Alvermann vitrina Parr Algerien / L’Algérie Rütten & Loening, Berlín, 1960 (facsímil 2011) Kazuo Kenmochi Narcotic Photographic Document Inoue Shoten, Tòquio, 1963 Kazuo Kitai Teikoh Mirai-sha Press, Tòquio, 1965 Ed van der Elsken Sweet Life Harry N. Abrams Inc., Nova York, 1966 Gian Butturini London Editrice SAF, Verona, 1969 Enrique Bostelmann América:
    [Show full text]
  • Lieko Shiga RASEN KAIGAN/Album (SPIRAL COAST/Album)
    Lieko Shiga RASEN KAIGAN/album (SPIRAL COAST/album) Special book review by Gerry Badger I begin with an admission. One of the most interesting essays ever written by John Szarkowski was his introduction to William Eggleston’s Guide. I find it so fascinating because, although Szarkowki could intuitively see the merit in Eggleston’s work, I think he also found it baffling and difficult to pin down in writing. And his essay explores this sense of puzzlement, his search for understanding. I feel the same about Lieko Shiga’s new book, SPIRAL COAST/ album, which I think is quite special – and yet I’m not absolutely certain why. Lieko Shiga has become the rising star of Japanese photography by employing a completely different style to everybody’s favourite Japanese photographer, Rinko Kawauchi. Whereas Kawauchi is serene and understated in her approach, Shiga is flamboyant and expressionist, unafraid to deploy every technical trick in the book, using both the documentary and the staged photograph approaches. Her imagery does not so much display a style as flaunt a sensibility. And that sensibility is poetic, ebullient, and endlessly inventive, certainly not that of a shrinking violet. She first came to attention with her book Lagoon in 2008, and now looks set to cement her reputation with her new, ambitious project, Spiral Coast. The Spiral Coast project (which currently stands at three books) derives from the period, beginning in 2008, when Shiga went to live in the small community of Kitakama, in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture. She was invited to become the village photographer, which meant recording the religious festivals and other community events marking the year’s passage.
    [Show full text]
  • Press Materials PRIX PICTET SPACE Flowers Gallery, 529 West 20Th Street, New York NY 10011 November 1 – November 13
    Press Materials PRIX PICTET SPACE Flowers Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, New York NY 10011 November 1 – November 13 Opening Reception November 1, 6-8 pm The global photography prize Prix Pictet will continue its tour of the Finalists’ Exhibition for the seventh cycle of the prize at Flower’s Gallery in New York from 31 October until 13 November 2018. The Prix Pictet Finalists’ Exhibition comes from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where the Irish photographer Richard Mosse was announced winner of the CHF 100,000 prize by the late Kofi Annan at an award ceremony in May 2017. Speaking at the ceremony, Kofi Annan said: “Whether they focus on our cities; on the oceans, borders and barricades; on outer space or on the humanitarian crises unfolding across Europe; each of the photographers shortlisted for this cycle of the awards address their subject with a brilliant singularity of vision.” “Again and again they present us with visions of people carrying on against what are frequently dreadful odds.” “Perhaps in this there is hope. Hope that, despite the catastrophic damage that we have visited on the natural world and on the lives of our most vulnerable fellow citizens, it is not too late for us to reverse the damage we have done – to allow each other the space to think again.” “For all the havoc they portray, the artists shortlisted for Space have shone a light on this possibility. We would be foolish to ignore their messages.” Taking theme ‘Space’, the exhibition features work by the twelve shortlisted photographers: Mandy Barker [b.
    [Show full text]